3rd Chemo Completed/Question for group
Question:
Perhaps you’d like to check on Femara as a follow-on drug. I’m not HER+ either, only 1 cm tumor, no nodes. But I’d rather be save than sorry. Course I only had lumpectomy! Ann in PA
Response:
What he told you is the standard post treatment routine, every 3 months for 2-3 years, every 6 months for 2 more years and then yearly. Are you returning full time to work ? I worked part itme and transitioned back to full time slowly. Breast cancer can always return, it is one the hardest things about this diagnosis, you have bilateral mastectomies which I can understand by why did they take a lynph node if it was a prevenative mastectomuy. Questions to ask- What was your complete pathology report, IE Type of breast cancer ( ductal vs lobular, vasive vs non vasive) what was your nuclear grade ? Where you HER/2 positive or neg ?
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I completed my 3rd round of chemo today, Friday. Just one more to go. My doctor is releasing me to go back to work on August 1st. I probably could have went back sooner, but doctor really didn’t want me to, so I didn’t push it. All in all, I have had a good summer with my kids. I have been one of the lucky ones. With the medicine the doctor gives me, I have had no problems with getting sick after chemo. I have also had no problems with my blood count dropping. Normally, the second and third day after, I get very tired and do nothing but sit around. My husband and kids know this, so they have taken to fending for themselves and for me on those days. I wouldn’t have been able to make it without my family. I talked with my oncologist today before my chemo to see what plan of action I would follow after my last chemo. He told me that basically I would just have to be monitored regularly to be sure nothing comes up. The reasons he gave were: 1.2 cm tumor, radical mastectomy in affected breast with 18 neg lymph nodes, mastectomy in other breast with 1 neg lymph node, and 4 rounds of preventative chemo. Also the my bc is non hormone receptive so Tamoxifen would be of no use. He is very positive that I will have no further problems. Has anyone else been in the same situation and what does everyone think about what he told me? I want to know if I need to ask him any other questions on my next visit. Thanks for your encouragement. Pat
Response:
I completed my 3rd round of chemo today, Friday. Just one more to go. My doctor is releasing me to go back to work on August 1st. I probably could have went back sooner, but doctor really didn’t want me to, so I didn’t push it. All in all, I have had a good summer with my kids. I have been one of the lucky ones. With the medicine the doctor gives me, I have had no problems with getting sick after chemo. I have also had no problems with my blood count dropping. Normally, the second and third day after, I get very tired and do nothing but sit around. My husband and kids know this, so they have taken to fending for themselves and for me on those days. I wouldn’t have been able to make it without my family. I talked with my oncologist today before my chemo to see what plan of action I would follow after my last chemo. He told me that basically I would just have to be monitored regularly to be sure nothing comes up. The reasons he gave were: 1.2 cm tumor, radical mastectomy in affected breast with 18 neg lymph nodes, mastectomy in other breast with 1 neg lymph node, and 4 rounds of preventative chemo. Also the my bc is non hormone receptive so Tamoxifen would be of no use. He is very positive that I will have no further problems. Has anyone else been in the same situation and what does everyone think about what he told me? I want to know if I need to ask him any other questions on my next visit. Thanks for your encouragement. Pat
